WANT TO SAVE MORE AS A RADY SHELL SUBSCRIBER?Start your summer weekends off right with a stellar set of eight Friday night concerts to enjoy on San Diego Bay. From our classy classical Opening Night concert to The Music of John Williams and The Gershwins in Hollywood, you'll hear some of the greatest popular music written for stage and film, as well as the guitar mastery of living legend Buddy Guy!
BUDDY GUY 90
Friday, September 11, 7:30 PM
...with Special Guest CHRISTONE "KINGFISH" INGRAM!
Buddy Guy brings his 90th birthday celebration to The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park! At 90 years old, he stands as one of the most influential guitarists in American music. As a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee and a pioneer of Chicago’s explosive West Side sound, Buddy Guy remains a guiding force for generations of rock and blues legends. The nine-time Grammy winner has also earned a Lifetime Achievement Grammy, 38 Blues Music Awards, the Billboard Century Award, the Presidential National Medal of Arts, and the Kennedy Center Honor. Rolling Stone ranks him #23 on its list of the “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time,” underscoring his unmatched impact on modern music.
Born in 1936 to a sharecropper’s family in rural Louisiana, Guy arrived in Chicago in 1957 and went on to reshape the sound of the electric guitar through groundbreaking work with Chess Records and influential recordings of his own. His recent achievements include a 2019 Grammy win for The Blues Is Alive and Well and the acclaimed PBS American Masters documentary Buddy Guy: The Blues Chase the Blues Away. Today, as he celebrates 90 years, Buddy Guy remains an American music icon – one of the last living architects of the electric blues tradition.
Please note: The San Diego Symphony Orchestra does not appear on this concert.
The Sixties Show
Friday, September 18, 7:30 PM
Craig O’Keefe, bass, vocals, guitar
Tom Licameli, guitar, vocals, bass
Jim Boggia, guitar, vocals, ukulele
Kevin Bents, keyboards, vocals, guitar, bass
Scott Devours, drums
Peter Chiusano, keyboards
From New York City comes the greatest 1960s musical re-creation show on Earth! This popular, award-winning Off-Broadway production delivers a high-energy, multimedia immersive experience that transports audiences back in time – built around a thrilling, note-for-note live concert re-creation. The members of The Sixties Show were hand-picked to perform and record with The Who, Sir Paul McCartney, The Beach Boys, Brian Wilson, The Bee Gees, The Rascals, Mick Jagger, John Fogerty, Bruce Springsteen, Walter Becker and Donald Fagen (Steely Dan).
What you’re about to experience isn’t nostalgia. Time travel is real. It just sounds different than you’d expect. You’re not watching the past. You’re moving through it. What happens on stage isn’t a reenactment. It’s a loop. A current. A feedback circuit of memory and energy. What happened then is happening again. Right now.
Please note: The San Diego Symphony Orchestra does not appear on this concert.